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Help:Links
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There are three sorts of links in MediaWiki:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to other general websites
- interwiki links to other wikis that were included at the time of current wiki installation
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Internal links
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page to which you want to link in double square brackets. When you preview or save the edited text, you'll see the new link pointing to that page. If the page exists already it is displayed in blue, if it does not, in red. Selflinks to the current full page are not transformed into URLs but rather are displayed in bold as: Help:Links. However, selflinks to anchors within the page are fully displayed.
There is no need to capitalize the first letter of the target page since this is automatically done by the wikiware when the link is sought. Similarly, spaces can be used because they are also automatically changed to underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
| Description | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Internal link | [[Entry Page]] | Entry Page |
| Piped link | [[Entry Page|different text]] | different text |
| Redirect | #REDIRECT [[Entry Page]] See also Help:Redirects | → Entry Page |
| Internal link to an anchor | [[#See also]] Section headings and the top of the page are automatically anchored. | #See also |
| Internal link to an anchor at another page | [[Help:Images#See also]] | Help:Images#See also |
| Internal link to a subpage | [[/example]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example]] . | /example |
| Internal link to a category page | [[:Category:Help]] See also Help:Categories | Category:Help |
| Internal link to an image or a file of other types | [[media:example.jpg]] [[media:example.pdf]] See also Help:Images | media:example.jpg |
External links
| Description | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
| External link with different label | [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
| External link numbered | [http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
| External link icons | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav sound] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document] External link icons may differ depending on the file type of the target. | |
| External link to the same host | [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
| [2] |
| External link to other host passing the pagename | [http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]
| [3] |
| Mailto link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] | email me |
| Mailto named with subject line and body | [mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info] | info |
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How to avoid auto-links
By default, when you simply type a URL beginning with "http://", it will be transformed to an external link (see the first line of the next section for an example).
To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> tags as in:
<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org
Interwiki links
Interwiki links are links for which the internal link markup to a website has been added in advance. For example, you can link to the Sunflower article on http://en.wikipedia.org by typing [[wikipedia:Sunflower]], which will result in a link wikipedia:Sunflower. This is because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ has been added to this wiki with the prefix of wikipedia.
Similar to internal page links, you can create piped links, with alternate link label, e.g. [[wikipedia:Sunflower|big yellow flower]].
Basically an Interwiki link is simply an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower Sunflower], but interwiki links allow you to type out an easy and compact link, almost as if you are linking to a page on your own wiki.
